The Psychologist, by HÜMA UTKU

The Psychologist

by HÜMA UTKU

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1.	Fuel For The Flames 06:12	buy track
2.	Dissolution of I 08:00	buy track
3.	Sublimation 05:39	buy track
4.	Ataxia 04:28	buy track
5.	Light of All Lights 03:02	buy track
6.	Continuing Bonds 03:12	buy track
7.	Islands of Consciousness 04:54	buy track
8.	Rüya (Şimdiki Zaman Kipinde) 04:45	buy track
9.	Chironian Wound 11:00	buy track

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Editions Mego presents The Psychologist, the sophomore album by the Istanbul born and raised, Berlin based electronic music composer and sound artist Hüma Utku.

As the title suggests, The Psychologist, is a series of sonic essays based around themes of psychological phenomena and can be read as a musical enquiry into the human condition. With Utku’s background as a graduate of Psychology and her current practice as a conceptual music composer we see the two main threads in her professional career intertwine on this unique and ambitious release.

Including recordings of Buchla 200 from Utku’s Elektronmusikstudion residency in October 2020,The Psychologist is a genre aversive work that embodies elements of synthesiser music, electroacoustic, experimental techno, industrial, modern composition and spoken word. Piano, string compositions and vocals hold weight throughout a number of pieces providing a dramatic acoustic edge to the psychological explorations contained within.

The foreboding mood of much of this release is the product of investigation that lends the unsettling theme of anticipatory grief to the mood of the tracks Light of All Lights and Continuing Bonds. Islands of Consciousness refers to Jungian metaphor for consciousness whilst the unnerving Rüya twists around dream analysis in Gestalt psychology. Fuel For The Flames proceeds as a buzzing and swirling representation of alchemy and psychological symbolism. Dissolution of I is haunted by a strange sensation of dissociation whilst defense mechanisms support the sublime Sublimation. The bright shapes of Chironian Wound represent archetypes and analytical psychology whilst the fried soundscapes and rhythms of Ataxia encapture neurological states.

The results unravel with both the clockwork rhythms of the human body and the unpredictable nature of the psyche, the pieces follow arrhythmic patterns in a harmonious way. It tells the raw and intimate story of the human experience with a new work whereby the predictable operates in parallel with the unexpected and like human experience itself, is dark and complex.

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released May 6, 2022

Composed, Written & Produced by Hüma Utku
Piano & Vocals by Hüma Utku
Double Bass performed by Adam Pultz Melbye
Cello performed by Florina Speth (aka Schloss Mirabell)
Violin performed by Marta Forsberg
Additional Mixing by Enyang Urbiks
Mastering by Stephan Mathieu

Cover photography & art by Gözde Güngör
Design by Eloise Leigh

Made with the support of Goethe Institute Sweden and Musikfonds e.V.

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HÜMA UTKU Berlin, Germany

Istanbul born and raised, Berlin based electronic music composer and sound artist Hüma Utku explores the possibilities of how sound textures and rhythm can be used to evoke a sense of ancient within abstract electronic music.

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